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Unit 8

Attitudes and Happiness

组员： 杜梦菲、胡静、周海龙、 贺伟、葛晴峰、董涵、董浩、

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Jerry was always in a good mood and had something positive to say. When someone asked him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”杰瑞的心情总是很好,而且他总是说些积极向上的话。如果有人问他最近如 何，他会回答：“我好得不得了！”

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The waiters followed Jerry because he was a natural motivator. If an employee had a had day, Jerry would tell the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.他是个很独特的经理，因为当让从一家餐馆跳槽另一家餐馆时，总是有几个男服务员跟随他。 这几位服务员紧跟着杰瑞，因为他天生会激励人。如果某个员工碰到了不顺心的事，杰瑞就会 教他如何看待事情的乐观的一面。

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I was curious about this guy, so one day I asked Jerry, “I don’t get it ! You can’t be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?”

我对此人非常好奇，于是有一天我就问他，“我 真不明白，你总不可能一直乐观吧。你是如何保持住 这种积极乐观的心态的呢？

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Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself I wake up and say to myself Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens , I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out① the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life” 杰瑞回答道，”每天早晨我醒来就对自己说，‘杰瑞，你今天有两种 选择：你可以选择好心情，也可以选择坏心情。’我选择好心情。每次有 糟糕的事情发生时，我可以选择当个受害者，也可以从中吸取经验；我选 择从中吸取经验。每次有人向我抱怨时，我可以选择接受怨言，也可以指 出生活中积极乐观的一面；我选择指出生活中积极乐观的一面。”

①:指出，指明

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Life is all about choices. Every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. How you live your life is your life is your own choice. I reflected on what Jerry said.

生活就是不断地选择。 每种情况都是个选择， 由你来选择如何让应对。 由你来选择别人对你心 情的影响，可以选好心 情，可以选坏心情。如 何生活时你自己的选择。 我回味着杰瑞所说的话。

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Soon I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch②, but often thought abo

ut him when I made a choice in my life. Several years later, I heard that Jerry was shot and badly wounded in a robbery when robbers came in through the back door that Jerry had left open. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the local hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I d be twins. Want to see my scars?”不久，我离开了餐馆业，开始自己创业。我们失去了联系。不过，每当我面临着人生中 的抉择时，就会想起他。几年后，我听说又一次杰瑞忘了关后门，强盗乘机进门抢劫，杰瑞受到 了枪击，严重受伤。幸运的是，人们很快发现了杰瑞，赶紧将他送到了当地的医院。经过了18个 小时的手术和好几个星期的特别护理，杰瑞终于出院了。此事发生后约六个月，我见到了杰瑞。 我问他感觉如何，他回答说。“好得不能再好了。想看看我的伤疤吗？”

②(with)失去联系

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I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door.” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”我没有看他的伤疤，而是问他抢劫发生是他心里在想什么。“我首先想到的是， 我应该把后门锁上，”杰瑞回到道，“后来，我倒在地上，这是我想到我有两种选择： 我可以选择生，也可以选择死。我选择了生。”

“Weren’t you scared?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they took me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions of the doctors, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, he’s a dead man.“难道你那是不害怕吗？”我问。杰瑞接着说，”急救护理人员都很棒。他们不断 对我说我会好起来的。担当他们将我送入急救室时，医生们的表情把我吓坏了。我 看到他们的眼神仿佛在说，‘这个人完了。’ ”

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“I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. “Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything,” said Jerry, “I replied yes.” The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I yelled, Bullets! ”

“我知道我必须采取行动。“你怎么办的？”我问。“嗯，护士问我是否对 什么过敏，”杰瑞说，“我的回答‘是的’。这是医生和护士都停下手中的工 等着我的回答。我大声的叫道‘子弹！’ ”

Over their laughter, I told them. I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead. ” Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his d

octors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

“他们笑完后,我告诉他们, 我要活下去。给我动手术吧，把我当成活人， 别把我当做死人。”由于医生高超的医术，更是由于他积极乐观的人生 态度，杰瑞终于活了下来。从杰瑞的身上，我懂得了，我们可以选择充实 的过好每一天。最终，态度决定一切。

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ComprehensionA. Pair work Complete the following sentences orally according to the text. Take turns asking and answering the question.1.Why did some waiters follow Jerry from restaurant to restaurant? The waiters followed Jerry from restaurant to restaurant because _________________________________________________________.

2 .What happened to Jerry several years after the author started his own business? Jerry _______________________________________________________.

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3.What action did Jerry take when he saw the hopeless expression of the doctors? He made a joke by saying that __________________________________________________________________.

4.What saved Jerry’s life? Jerry survived because of _______________________________________________________________.

5.According to the author, how important is a positive attitude for a happy life?According to the author,______________________________________________.

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TEXT BSearching for Smiles

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Ask most people anywhere in the world what they want out of life, and the reply will probably be: “to be happy.” Yet happiness is hard to get. You cannot buy it in shops. It does not grow naturally in the countryside. There is no such thing as a degree course in happiness.如果你问起人们在生活中最想得到什么，世 界上任何地方的大多数人都会回答说：“快乐”。 然而，快乐来之不易。商店中买不到，乡野中长 不出，大学里也不会开设快乐方面的学问课程。

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But there is such a thing 不过，确实有 as a professor of happiness. 专门研究快乐的 His name is Ed Deiner, and he 教授，此人名叫 is a psychology professor at 埃德· 戴纳，是美 the University of Illinois in the 国的伊利诺斯大 U.S. Ed Deiner has spent his 学的心里学教授。 whole他毕生都在研究 professional life studying what makes people 使人们感到快乐 happy, comparing levels of 的因素，比较不 happiness between cultures 同的文化之间快 and trying to find out exactly 乐程度的差异， why we enjoy enjoying 想找出人们喜欢 ourselves. 快乐的确切原因。

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Many people would say that this question does mot need an answer. But Professor Deiner has one anyway. “If you re a cheerful, happy person, your marriage is more likely to last, and you re more likely to make money and be successful at your job. On average, happy people have stronger immune systems, and there is some evidence that they live longer.”

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iness is hard to define, says Professor Deiner. It means different things in different cultures. Some language do not even have a word for it. That is a sad thought. 戴纳教授说，给快乐下定义是十分困难的。在不同的文化中，快乐有着不同的 含义，有些语言中连“快乐”这个词都没有，这着实让人感到悲哀。 So who are the world s happiest people? It depends on how the word is defined. There is individual happiness, the sense of joy we get when we do something we like. But there is also the feeling of satisfaction we get when we know that others respect us and approve of how we behave. According to Professor Deiner, the Western world pursues individual happiness while Asia prefers mutual satisfaction. 那么，谁是世界上最快乐的人呢？这就是看快乐是如何定义的了。有一种快乐叫 个人快乐，我们做自己喜欢的事情就会有这种个人快乐感。此外，入股我们知道别人 尊敬我们并赞同我们的行为，我们也会获得另一种(有别于个人快乐的)满足感。 根据戴纳教授的观点，西方人追求个人快乐，而亚洲人更偏爱相互的满足感。

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“In the West, the individualistic (个人主义的) culture means that your mood matters much more than it does in the East. People ask themselves, what can I do that s fun or interesting? They become unhappy when they can t do any of these things. If you ask people from Japan or China if they are happy, they tend to look at what has gone wrong in their lives. If not much has gone wrong, then they are satisfied.”

在西方的个人主义文化中，个人的心情感受要比在东方文化中重要得多。 (西方)人总是自问，‘有什么好玩的事情可做？’如果找不到有趣的事情可做， 他们就会感到不开心。然而，如果你问日本人或中国人是否快乐，他们往往会 考虑生活中是不是出了问题。如果没出什么问题，他们就会搞到满足。

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People from Spain and other Spanish-speaking 戴纳教授发现， countries had the 西班牙以及说西班牙 happiest culture, 语的国家拥有最快乐 Professor Deiner 的文化。“最大的文 found. “The 化差异在于人们如何 biggest cultural 认识荣辱。与其他文 difference is to do 化相比，西班牙语文 with pride and 化中的荣耀感远多于 shame. Hispanic 羞耻感。” (西班牙语言 的)cultures report much more pride and much less shame than others.”

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Income also made a big difference to people s happiness, 收入对人们是否快乐也有很大的影响，但这种影响只在较低层次上发挥作用 but only at the lowest levels. Average income earners in the US 在美国，中等收入者比穷人要快乐得多，但百万富翁们纸币中等收入者稍微快 were much happier than people in poverty. But millionaires were 了一点点。这似乎表明，钱不必多，只要

没有后顾之忧，我们就快乐。在戴纳 only a little bit happier than people on average incomes. It 教授的研究中，斯堪的纳维亚国家的人最快乐，他们收入高，而且财富分配相 seems that money makes us happy when we have enough to feel 当均匀。 secure.

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But can we be too happy? “You get people who are actually happy, but they think happiness is so important that they try to be even happier. This desire to be always happy is a product of individualism, where the emphasis is on you individually, your emotions and feeling good. People can end up feeling unhappy because ordinary happiness is not good enough for them.” 会不会出现快乐过头的情况呢？“你常常会 看到很多人实际很快乐，但他们认为快乐十分重 要，于是他们孜孜以求，希望更加快乐。其实我 So happiness can be 们应该中庸一点，只有这样，有喜事发生时我们 a kind of problem, too. 的快乐情绪才能上来。这种想一直保持快的欲望 But at least it s the 是有个人主义带来的；个人主义强调个人，强调 kind that leaves 心情，强调自我感觉一定要好，但这种人往往最 people smiling 终会感到不快乐，因为平平常常的快乐对他们来 说已经不够了。” 这么说，快乐也成问问题，但这个问题至少 还能够给人们带来笑颜

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Comprehension A. Answer the following questions according to the text

1. What is ED Deiner? What does he study? ED Deiner is ________________________________________ ____________________________________________________. He has spent HIS whole professional life studying ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________._.

2.According to Professor Deiner,____________________ Westerners pursue individual happiness while Asians prefer mutual satisfaction _______________________________________________.

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3.From this statement, we may conclude that _________________________________ __________________________________.

4.The Scandinavian countries are among the happiest because______________ _________________________________. 5.In this article, the author defines individual happiness as _______________________ __________________________________.

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